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Hi
Having listened to
the cuckoo calls on http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birdGroups/cuckoos.htm (thanks
very much to Nick Payne for this link), I am almost certain that the male satin
bower bird often in our garden has been copying the call of the fan-tailed
cuckoo. I had been trying for some time to track down what I thought
was a cuckoo in the tree over the road, but was frustrated when a bower bird
apparently also in the tree flew away and I couldn't see the cuckoo. Just before
Christmas I heard it in our back yard, but when I went out to see it, I found
the call came from the bower bird up on the power line.
This morning I again
heard the bower bird that imitates a kookaburra, producing a very soft but
unmistakeable laugh. Rod Mackay who also lives in Holder had heard this bower
bird before so presumably it's been around for a while.
Charmian
Lawson
Holder
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